A memoir by a well-connected businessman offers insights into the Communist Party’s thinking as it tightens its grip on the private sector.
Tag: Books and Literature
Booker Prize Finalists Include ‘Great Circle’ and ‘Bewilderment’
This year’s shortlist includes novels by Nadifa Mohamed, Patricia Lockwood, Damon Galgut and Anuk Arudpragasam. A winner will be named in November.
Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.
After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky’s shared home in St. Petersburg, a rare grass-roots victory in Russia.
‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World
A movement against Western influence threatens to close off a nation that succeeded in part by welcoming new ideas.
‘There’s So Much More to Afghanistan’: Khaled Hosseini Reflects on His Birthplace
The author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” talks about the pain and frustration of watching the country from afar.
Dutch-Turkish Novelist Depicts Her Journey to Secularism With No Inhibitions
Lale Gul’s autobiographical and sexually frank tale of a woman breaking with her conservative Muslim culture, and her strict parents, is a best seller in the Netherlands. “I’m done hiding,” she says.
Ying-shih Yu, Renowned Scholar of Chinese Thought, Dies at 91
He believed that Chinese tradition was more varied and tolerant than critics thought it to be, and that it could be a vessel for enlightened values and democratic progress.
Booker Prize Longlist Is Unveiled
Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place,” Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” are among the 13 novels nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
Booker Prize Longlist Is Unveiled
Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place,” Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” are among the 13 novels nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
Rescuing China’s Muzzled Past, One Footnote at a Time
In a two-volume tome, the independent historian Yu Ruxin explains the crucial role of the military in Mao’s stormy Cultural Revolution.